Even worse, no matter the value of bar, most of the games end up being games that came out within the last couple of years (with few exceptions).
I guess all media is guilty of these types of lists. I've seen shows on TV that chronicle the top 25 "history changing" moments and most all of them are in the 20th century. Too bad that our media outlets are too often short-sighted.
So maybe the answer is to create consumer level devices that "stamp" media rather than "burning" discs. I wonder if the hinderance is in the technology or if there is some sort of political reason for not pushing the former method.
I think it's even more hideous with the advent of digital cameras. How many people in this world are keeping their children's memories on a disc because it's cheaper than standard film or cheaper than printing out the digital photos? How many people will find out in 10 years that they have zero pictures of the children as babies? As a parent, that's a a very scary thought.
With that said, I always thought DVD-R for Authoring were supposed to be the big bad media that was made for archiving data. Granted that's not a CD-R, but I was under the impression that at least some optical format existed for "consumer" use (it's pretty expensive for the drives right now). Anyone well versed with optical media care to comment?
Also, I have compact discs that are pushing 15 years old that play just fine in my car, computer and home CD player. Is it not possible to make this kind of durable media available to the public?
IANAP, but I've read a ton of material on ADHD in addition to long discussions with my mother (who is a first grade teacher). The problem we have with the ADHD stigma (that bleeds to my problem with articles like this) is that the true ADHD kid can't sit still for ANYTHING and can't concentrate on ANYTHING to save his/her life. If your kid can't sit still in school but can come home and play Pokemon on his GBA for 4 hours, your kid isn't hyperactive.
What's even worse in schools (at least in the US) is that gifted kids usually get sent to the doctor for Ritalin before they get sent to a classroom that can provide the level of stimulus their little brains need. My mom often has to caution parents that the intelligent child is not content with normal learning patterns and their behavior can often be mistaken for hyperactivity.
I'd be willing to register a domain and setup a website if someone knows of a good place that will host non-profit orgs for cheap (and that has ennough bandwidth to survive a/. attack). Anyone?
Question, one that always fails to make sense to me:
How in the world can the FIRST POST, which is a full minute (since that's as granular as we get on Slashdot) before the SECOND POST be moderated as Redundant? Anyone?
Are the moderators suddenly members of the Slashdot Pre-Karma Police, suspended in some sort of aqueous solution, determining if something is redundant in the future?
Gameplay was king, and that was the primary selling point of the Genesis and SNES
Wrong. Graphics always were and always will be a primary selling point (from a marketing perspective). It's funny how quickly everyone forgets how the 2 consoles competed on games having better graphics than the other. Sure, we now see how the gameplay was awesome back then, but at the time you didn't see comercials or ads where Nintendo promoted the gameplay of their titles over those of Sega's, and to insinuate so is to show yourself for the fanboy (or girl) you are.
We always look back on a console and it's games for the fun titles, but make no mistake that companies promote the graphic prowess of their systems when trying to sell to gamers.
how easy is it to drop out of army in usa? any real penalties?
I know of at least one person that got out of the US Marines in boot camp (after a few weeks), but I believe they gave him some sort of honorable discharge with the addition that he was mentally unfit for duty (Section 8, maybe?). AFAIK, once you get past boot camp you must serve until your "contract" is up. The only way out is a discharge, and there are few ways to get an honorable discharge. I mean, Corporal Klinger tried dressing as a woman and still couldn't get a discharge.:^)
Maybe it's because the sci fi that talked about all of the technology changes in the year 2000 was at least partially wrong? Maybe it's because a lot of the audience for science fiction live and breathe science and technology all day long and would rather retreat to a world sans tech, where knights in shining armor rescue the kingdom from the evil dragons.
I think ultimately, though, it's partially because science fiction is really science guessing while fantasy is pure imagination. Since the former has the propensity for being incorrect while the latter can't possibly be wrong, fans of sci-fi/fantasy are starting to gravitate toward the world that can never be.
Ken and Roberta Williams
Howard Lincoln
John Carmack
John Romero
Shigeru Miyamoto
Warren Robinett
Dani Bunten
Noel Bushnell
Steve Wozniak
Richard Garriott
And the list goes on. I'm thinking more of the people behind the games. Kinda like giving Mickey Mouse a star on the Walk of Fame, but not Walt Disney.
Is <insert sporting activity here> such an interesting spectator sport? It's more interesting to play than watch someone else. And if you want to watch someone else play well you can do that using your own <insert equipment here> and some <insert other equipment here>.
The true reason is that gaming is not a) accepted as a popular sport by the masses and/or b) accepted as a sport worthing of wasting money on by people who have money to waste.
Let's see...watch Manchester United/the Dallas Cowboys/the New York Yankees/Aus vs. NZ...or watch some presumably teenaged geek's avatar shoot another presumably teenaged geek's avatar on a screen? For a large percentage of people, the choice is easy.
Not only does it take good money, but I know at least Sony and Nintendo want you to submit business plans, have financial and corporate backing, have already entered talks with a publisher, have a design for a game and also have some code maybe running on a PC to show for it. They don't let just any Joe Shmoe with money call up and order a dev kit. Things may have changed, but this is how I understood it to work a few years ago.
On a side note related to this, I really wish Sony would resurrect the Yaroze program. It was a great way to get into Playstation development. I would be interested to hear how many people broke into the industry, either as individuals or companies, through that program. Maybe it was such a small number that Sony decided it wasn't worth it.
There is no such thing as a perfect virus scanner. We run a mixture of Symantec and McAfee at work, and there have been several cases where only one of the two programs detects a certain virus. This is not uncommon, and to me it is just a fact of life. We've even seen machines which Symantec and McAfee declared clean, but Trend Micro's product declared infected.
No wonder half of all marriages fail within the first year
That's FUD. I think you could argue that half of all marriages ultimately fail (in the US), but not in the first year. Don't just make up facts because you have a rant.
On its Delta 2 Heavy-Lift vehicle, the Space Infrared Telescope (SIRTF)
Bob : So, uh, whaddya think we should call this thing. I mean, it's just a Huge Infrared Telescope. Jim : That's brilliant! HIRT! Haha! Everyone will laugh at our clever naming scheme. Bob : Yeah, but the heads of the program will never go for it. How about SIRT? Space Infrared Telescope? Jim : Hmm, don't you think 4 letters in an aerospace acronym is soooo cliche? Can't we make it 5 letters or something? Bob : Sure, let's just add an 'F' to it. Pronounce it "sir tiff". Jim : Even more brilliant, Bob! I have been looking for something to do my PhD thesis on...maybe I could spend 3 years researching the science behind the formation of aerospace vehicle acronmys...
Or maybe I could just RTFA and find out for my self...
The Meyers and Josuttis books are of little use to a programmer new to C++ or even new to programming in general. They are books designed to extend your basic knowledge of C++ into something more advanced.
I am about to start teaching a C++ class to several co-workers. The 2 of us "professors" will use Accelerated C++ and the Dietels' book. I would only recommend your selections to programmers familiar enough with C++ to be dangerous, but need to gain a deeper understanding of the language.
Wow, then I was way off base...I'm not really a Simpson's watcher, and I can't say that of the few episodes I've seen that what you described is one of them.
I believe the article commented on the fact that the game was made in only 3-4 weeks. Since HeadGames is (was?) a cash-cow development house, what little they made far eclipsed the cost of getting it out the door.
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Even worse, no matter the value of bar, most of the games end up being games that came out within the last couple of years (with few exceptions).
I guess all media is guilty of these types of lists. I've seen shows on TV that chronicle the top 25 "history changing" moments and most all of them are in the 20th century. Too bad that our media outlets are too often short-sighted.
Not surprising that they have '666' in their address...
So maybe the answer is to create consumer level devices that "stamp" media rather than "burning" discs. I wonder if the hinderance is in the technology or if there is some sort of political reason for not pushing the former method.
I think it's even more hideous with the advent of digital cameras. How many people in this world are keeping their children's memories on a disc because it's cheaper than standard film or cheaper than printing out the digital photos? How many people will find out in 10 years that they have zero pictures of the children as babies? As a parent, that's a a very scary thought.
With that said, I always thought DVD-R for Authoring were supposed to be the big bad media that was made for archiving data. Granted that's not a CD-R, but I was under the impression that at least some optical format existed for "consumer" use (it's pretty expensive for the drives right now). Anyone well versed with optical media care to comment?
Also, I have compact discs that are pushing 15 years old that play just fine in my car, computer and home CD player. Is it not possible to make this kind of durable media available to the public?
But does the rest of the world use AOL or Earthlink, which were the ISPs mentioned in the speed tests?
Then again, I do see AOL boards during Bundesliga games, which is another issue entirely : why would Germans want to use America On-Line?
IANAP, but I've read a ton of material on ADHD in addition to long discussions with my mother (who is a first grade teacher). The problem we have with the ADHD stigma (that bleeds to my problem with articles like this) is that the true ADHD kid can't sit still for ANYTHING and can't concentrate on ANYTHING to save his /her life. If your kid can't sit still in school but can come home and play Pokemon on his GBA for 4 hours, your kid isn't hyperactive.
What's even worse in schools (at least in the US) is that gifted kids usually get sent to the doctor for Ritalin before they get sent to a classroom that can provide the level of stimulus their little brains need. My mom often has to caution parents that the intelligent child is not content with normal learning patterns and their behavior can often be mistaken for hyperactivity.
Yeah, evidently SAGE is sans a big admin.
Even worse, do you want to read salray rankings from an organization called "SANS", the French word for "without"?
I'd be willing to register a domain and setup a website if someone knows of a good place that will host non-profit orgs for cheap (and that has ennough bandwidth to survive a /. attack). Anyone?
Reply here or in my e-mail address.
GameInformer.com has a rumor (via unconfirmed sources)
Considering that Game Informer is owned by Gamestop.
Question, one that always fails to make sense to me :
How in the world can the FIRST POST, which is a full minute (since that's as granular as we get on Slashdot) before the SECOND POST be moderated as Redundant? Anyone?
Are the moderators suddenly members of the Slashdot Pre-Karma Police, suspended in some sort of aqueous solution, determining if something is redundant in the future?
Gameplay was king, and that was the primary selling point of the Genesis and SNES
Wrong. Graphics always were and always will be a primary selling point (from a marketing perspective). It's funny how quickly everyone forgets how the 2 consoles competed on games having better graphics than the other. Sure, we now see how the gameplay was awesome back then, but at the time you didn't see comercials or ads where Nintendo promoted the gameplay of their titles over those of Sega's, and to insinuate so is to show yourself for the fanboy (or girl) you are.
We always look back on a console and it's games for the fun titles, but make no mistake that companies promote the graphic prowess of their systems when trying to sell to gamers.
how easy is it to drop out of army in usa? any real penalties?
:^)
I know of at least one person that got out of the US Marines in boot camp (after a few weeks), but I believe they gave him some sort of honorable discharge with the addition that he was mentally unfit for duty (Section 8, maybe?). AFAIK, once you get past boot camp you must serve until your "contract" is up. The only way out is a discharge, and there are few ways to get an honorable discharge. I mean, Corporal Klinger tried dressing as a woman and still couldn't get a discharge.
Maybe it's because the sci fi that talked about all of the technology changes in the year 2000 was at least partially wrong? Maybe it's because a lot of the audience for science fiction live and breathe science and technology all day long and would rather retreat to a world sans tech, where knights in shining armor rescue the kingdom from the evil dragons.
I think ultimately, though, it's partially because science fiction is really science guessing while fantasy is pure imagination. Since the former has the propensity for being incorrect while the latter can't possibly be wrong, fans of sci-fi/fantasy are starting to gravitate toward the world that can never be.
That's why I said the list goes on! Those are just the ones that popped into my head in the 30 seconds I took to post. :^)
In no particular order :
Ken and Roberta Williams
Howard Lincoln
John Carmack
John Romero
Shigeru Miyamoto
Warren Robinett
Dani Bunten
Noel Bushnell
Steve Wozniak
Richard Garriott
And the list goes on. I'm thinking more of the people behind the games. Kinda like giving Mickey Mouse a star on the Walk of Fame, but not Walt Disney.
Riddle me this :
Is <insert sporting activity here> such an interesting spectator sport? It's more interesting to play than watch someone else. And if you want to watch someone else play well you can do that using your own <insert equipment here> and some <insert other equipment here>.
The true reason is that gaming is not a) accepted as a popular sport by the masses and/or b) accepted as a sport worthing of wasting money on by people who have money to waste.
Let's see...watch Manchester United/the Dallas Cowboys/the New York Yankees/Aus vs. NZ...or watch some presumably teenaged geek's avatar shoot another presumably teenaged geek's avatar on a screen? For a large percentage of people, the choice is easy.
Not only does it take good money, but I know at least Sony and Nintendo want you to submit business plans, have financial and corporate backing, have already entered talks with a publisher, have a design for a game and also have some code maybe running on a PC to show for it. They don't let just any Joe Shmoe with money call up and order a dev kit. Things may have changed, but this is how I understood it to work a few years ago.
On a side note related to this, I really wish Sony would resurrect the Yaroze program. It was a great way to get into Playstation development. I would be interested to hear how many people broke into the industry, either as individuals or companies, through that program. Maybe it was such a small number that Sony decided it wasn't worth it.
There is no such thing as a perfect virus scanner. We run a mixture of Symantec and McAfee at work, and there have been several cases where only one of the two programs detects a certain virus. This is not uncommon, and to me it is just a fact of life. We've even seen machines which Symantec and McAfee declared clean, but Trend Micro's product declared infected.
No wonder half of all marriages fail within the first year
That's FUD. I think you could argue that half of all marriages ultimately fail (in the US), but not in the first year. Don't just make up facts because you have a rant.
Or prove me wrong and I'll stand corrected.
No, but I am wondering where the 'F' came from.
On its Delta 2 Heavy-Lift vehicle, the Space Infrared Telescope (SIRTF)
Bob : So, uh, whaddya think we should call this thing. I mean, it's just a Huge Infrared Telescope.
Jim : That's brilliant! HIRT! Haha! Everyone will laugh at our clever naming scheme.
Bob : Yeah, but the heads of the program will never go for it. How about SIRT? Space Infrared Telescope?
Jim : Hmm, don't you think 4 letters in an aerospace acronym is soooo cliche? Can't we make it 5 letters or something?
Bob : Sure, let's just add an 'F' to it. Pronounce it "sir tiff".
Jim : Even more brilliant, Bob! I have been looking for something to do my PhD thesis on...maybe I could spend 3 years researching the science behind the formation of aerospace vehicle acronmys...
Or maybe I could just RTFA and find out for my self...
The Meyers and Josuttis books are of little use to a programmer new to C++ or even new to programming in general. They are books designed to extend your basic knowledge of C++ into something more advanced.
I am about to start teaching a C++ class to several co-workers. The 2 of us "professors" will use Accelerated C++ and the Dietels' book. I would only recommend your selections to programmers familiar enough with C++ to be dangerous, but need to gain a deeper understanding of the language.
Wow, then I was way off base...I'm not really a Simpson's watcher, and I can't say that of the few episodes I've seen that what you described is one of them.
Thanks to both of you for the clarification!
Someone please say where this quote (the original) is from. I can't seem to place it.
I believe the article commented on the fact that the game was made in only 3-4 weeks. Since HeadGames is (was?) a cash-cow development house, what little they made far eclipsed the cost of getting it out the door.